Site search
Everyone has their comfort zone with the Web. We all know where our favorite sites are,
how frequently they??™re updated, and what we can expect in our daily saunter through the
digital realm. We rarely think about the fact that the Web is indeed a cavernous, expanding
library of human thought, unprecedented in scope and almost impossible for the
human brain to put into perspective. Even the most voracious consumers of Internet content
are mere ants picking their way through a forest of information.
Search is the only tool we have to put the incomprehensible amount of data into any semblance
of order. Search engines specialize in crawling, indexing, ranking, and displaying
web content. While this might sound simple enough, the fact that Google, Yahoo, and
MSN have all made billions of dollars in just the search industry should be some indication
that the world relies heavily on their technology. In fact, the Internet has three characteristics
that make search indispensable:
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The Internet is already vast. Even if no content were added from this point on,
there would still be trillions of documents to sort through.
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